SOA in a Nutshell

I'm still struggling to get my head around Service Oriented Architecture and all that it implies. So far, it has only been very peripheral to what I do, so I'm ever on the outlook for pearls of wisdom about SOA.

Neil Ward-Dutton of Macehiter-Ward-Dutton has come up with a very nice visual summary diagram of the key benefits of an SOA approach at SOA's five benefits in one picture (click on the image there to see a legible enlargement, below is merely a thumbnail).

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asiapac.com.au Browser Share, late January 2008

This is the latest installment in a series of informal browser share snapshots that I've been publishing on this blog for several years now.

Today's snapshot matches pretty well the browser share statistics coming from European countries as measured via XiTiMonitor, published 24 January 2008: Relance de la part de visites de Mozilla Firefox dans Les pays européens fin 2007 (Google translation from French to English here).

I noticed Firefox share fluctuating, with a drop-off starting roughly in the middle of 2007, building up to a regular 25% to 30% towards the end of 2007. Also that a quite large proportion of Internet Explorer visits are still via the rather long-in-the-tooth IE6 rather than IE7.

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